26 yrs old and going to play in the Turkish League?
rats and a sinking ship comes to mind
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The most amazing thing about Dele being only 26 is that he’s been shit for 3 years already.
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Along with Marcus Rashford he has got to be one of the most wasted talents of the last 10 years. It makes you wonder about his personality and whether therein lies the problem. He had the skill to make it.
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I agree, it makes you wonder what path his career would’ve taken, if he’d played for a team managed by Klopp.
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He sort of did make it. As Limiescouse says, four years ago, he was not just one of the top young players in the PL, but crossing over into the top players category. Spurs looked to have a keystone in their midfield for maybe a decade, and there were rumours of the likes of Real Madrid looking at him. It is absolutely remarkable.
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Many people would be amazed to realize how many professional athletes really dont enjoy their job. Everyone enjoys it when it’s going well, but once it isn’t, and its time to put the hard work and take the licks, they realize it is actually a job. People who have no financial motivation to perform and working hard at a job you dont like tends not to be things that go together.
With Dele he went from tough love of a successful(ish) Poch side to the tough twatishness of Jose and has really not been the same player since. It’s hard for me to see it as anything other than a guy falling out of love with the game and being content to just steal a paycheck
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Lampard appears to be getting the credit for being ruthless in moving Ali out of the club. I believe it’s been taken out of Lampard’s hands, because Everton don’t want to pay Spurs any of the £40 million agreed. Why else have his appearances been so limited?
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This is a step up …
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I think they may well have moved him on even had he been successful given the clauses in the deal, but it does have the added sense in that he was terrible. The last thing Everton needed last season was games from someone uncommitted to the cause and who thought himself above fighting.
Yes, I think it says a lot about his attitude, when he arrived for his first training session at Finch Farm, in his Rolls Royce.
Fair play to him. I’d thought his career had bottomed when he moved to the Ev. But give him his due he’s worked hard, knuckled down and got a dream move to a bigger club. 
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Fixed for accuracy
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Wow, Alli move would not even be a sale, but a loan - Everton probably still paying part of his wages.
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I can’t fault anything in that speech, pure fact. The one thing about Jose, he had a sense of who deserved to be thrown under the bus.
Anyone that wasn’t named Terry, Lapmard or Drogba?
Shaw and Alli where the ones I remember the most. One fat and one not that smart. I can’t remember who it was a Chelsea, but I’m sure it was deserved.
Joe Cole, Salah, De Bruyne, Lukaku are the ones that quickly spring to mind. Likely there are more
First time it was Mutu. People remember the cocaine ban, but Jose had already targeted him before that positive test. Second time I dodnt remember the same sort of identifiable targeting. there were high profile players he didnt use as often as might ave been expected and who were soon shown the door - Cole, Lamps, Mata - but dont remember any of them being hung out to dry the way we’re used to with him
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